Grechaninov: Passion Week

Saturday 12 March, 8pm

The seven days known as Passion Week represent a unique period in the liturgical year of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church: a time of great liturgical intensity in which worshippers are invited to re-live in ‘real time’ the dramatic events in the life of Jesus Christ. It is out of this vast amount of hymnographic material that the Russian composer Aleksandr Grechaninov (1864–1956) selectively drew the thirteen settings that form his Passion Week, Op. 58, written sometime between 1911 and 1912.

Since its premiere in 1912 this magnificent work, with its broad range of emotional and spiritual experience, has remained essentially unknown in the West. Join the glorious voices of Cambridge Chorale for an introduction to this majestic milestone of Russian choral music.

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Saturday 12 March, 8pm • Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge